New Life Church, a congregation of the Christian Reformed Church within the Newton (Iowa) Correctional Facility, has been back to worship post-pandemic for nine months. It’s feeling growing joys and pains.
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Read the paperback version of The Maid, a cozy whodunnit, just in time for its sequel, The Mystery Guest, releasing in November.
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Quarterback follows three of the biggest quarterbacks in the game – Patrick Mahomes, Kirk Cousins and Marcus Mariota – through the 2022-2023 NFL season.
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Encanto meets The Chronicles of Narnia by way of Colombian folklore in this middle grade fantasy adventure.
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Newbery Medalist and New York Times bestselling author Lois Lowry transports readers to an Iron Age world through the suspenseful dual narrative of a boy and girl both battling to survive.
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With guns at the ready, men in military uniforms were running through his family’s compound in South Sudan.
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Despite Rajan’s high status and material success, his actions left him feeling spiritually exhausted and even afraid.
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‘We wanted to bridge a gap’ said NAE’s director of racial justice and reconciliation collaborative.
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The CRC’s Adrian Jacobs reflects on his former parishioner, Indigenous artist Jace Martin, whose Beautiful Broken Pieces album was released in September 2023.
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Does God want us to create computers with artificial intelligence even though he gave us perfectly good brains to do the work ourselves?
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See how readers responded to recent Banner issues, articles, and columns.
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Eight Ontario churches and one in Iowa are helping each other over the next eight months to be “profoundly welcoming and hospitable to the LGBTQ+ community” while honoring the parameters of the CRC’s recent human sexuality report.
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A Canadian memoirist tells the story of her immigrant father’s faith, even as he suffered from ALS.
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The debut picture book by Academy Award-winning actor and #1 New York Times bestselling author Matthew McConaughey
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Malcolm Guite reads poems and other classic literature from his enchanting library.
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This timely and thought-provoking story about a teen girl shouldering impossibly large responsibilities and ultimately learning that she doesn’t have to do it alone is the perfect follow-up to Daniel Aleman's award-winning debut novel, Indivisible.
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Named for a place where fresh water and salt water mix, Estuary is a movement of conversation groups, and Pastor Paul VanderKlay thinks every church should have one.
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신앙과 사랑의 상호 연관성을 탐구하는 것
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The Korean Christian Reformed Church of St. Louis (Mo.) is the first Korean congregation of the Christian Reformed Church in North America in the state.
In Memoriam: Rev. George Robert Mossel
1945-2023READ MOREA pastor with a great sense of humor who thought deeply about theology and loved communicating the gospel message, George Mossel died Aug. 21. He was 78.
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See some of our top picks for reading and watching for October 2023.
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“만물이 존재해야 할 상태로 있는 것”이 샬롬이라는 이 단순한 개념은 제가 집을 수리하는 과정에서 개인적으로 많은 만족감을 주었습니다.
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Rest, whether it’s sleeping or just taking a break, is important for our physical and spiritual health.
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A young woman entering 1882 New York City's rigid social scene is drawn into the daily conflicts surrounding the new-money Russell family and the established van Rhijn-Brook family, who are neighbors.